Benjamin’s Passagen (Passagen-Werk / Arcades Project)

Walter Benjamin’s “Passagen-Werk” (Arcades Project), an unfinished monumental study of 19th-century Parisian arcades and their significance for modernity, consumer capitalism, and the philosophy of history. It is treated in these claims as a key theoretical work that Horkheimer regarded as a definitive work of prima philosophia and which was inspired by Louis Aragon’s 1926 surrealist novel.

Claims that use this term

• Horkheimer viewed Benjamin’s Passagen as the definitive work of prima philosophia
• Aragon’s 1926 work inspired Benjamin’s Passagen project as a modern mythology